Jama

At Glitch, Anil Dash was (is?) the CEO and I observed his Live journal/New York/early web social circles and felt like I was watching some group interact publicly with decades of context that was invisible to me. I wonder if that's the same group as you're referring to?

I feel like there's some recognizable facets in stuff that gets published nowadays that's ultimately rooted in that group. Like Silicon Valley startup culture derided traditional media and this group kinda defined itself as being more legit because of their connections to traditional media, and as a result they write a lot of think pieces on the flaws of tech bro culture that are less directly criticisng things like capitalism and more pointing out "Unlike them, I've been trying to build thoughtful businesses on the web all along".

I don't think it was until I moved out to the Bay Area that I realized just how much of a cultural bubble you can live in if you're adjacent to coastal tech or media or especially tech media. It's like its own little fiefdom (which for certain tech people may have been the goal?).

I forget that it does, we used to just do ask chains with each other for ages

and if i recall right there was a bit of backlash to the inteoduction of DMs too, or at least a sizable degree of confusion as to why they were necessary